5 Feb
2019
5 Feb
'19
11:53 a.m.
*Miss Saigon*, that tale of war and woe, is back in Cleveland after all these years. The KeyBank Broadway Series musical, directed by Laurence Connor, offers a slightly reworked version of the first national tour that played here in 1992. Although the show lacks a hummable score and relies too heavily on sung dialogue, it does succeed in adding a human face to the horror that was the Vietnam War. Its focus is on the fall of Saigon in 1975 when the Viet Cong took the city and the exodus of South Vietnamese troops and the U.S. military turned into panic-fueled chaos. (See https://coolcleveland.com/2019/02/theater-review-miss-saigon-playhouse-squar... for full review)